About me

I’m Malevica, a self-confessed healing addict. I’ve been pretty fanatical about healing since I took it up in 2007 and across three expansions I’ve raided on every kind of healer, although my main has always been a Priest. I’ve recently moved back to the Oceanic server Dath’Remar where I’m raiding 10-mans on Tellisa, my gnome Discipline Priest.

The things that give me most pleasure in the game are the feeling of overcoming a great challenge, and the feeling of being part of a strong, cohesive team. I enjoy strategising and planning for new encounters, understanding their dynamics, and slotting abilities into place like Tetris pieces.
The things that make my blood boil are anyone who comes in underprepared, and people who think “it’s only a game” is a valid excuse for said underpreparedness.

When I’m not playing WoW (or writing about WoW) I’m generally either working on my doctorate or fiddling with one website or another, although I do go outside running from time to time.

Why I blog

I’m an analytically-minded person and I find that articulating my thoughts helps me to work through them systematically and come to measured conclusions. It’s also somewhat cathartic to dissect an experience and commit it to words. I also hope that spelling out my thought processes when making decisions about my class and play might be helpful or even interesting to others.

What the name means

Inspiration for the blog name came from a Priest that I came across in a Sunken Temple PuG while levelling. He shall remain nameless, but the screenshot below tells the story adequately. People were genuinely typing “h” in chat throughout the run.

I honestly hope this was an alt messing with lowbies. I must look him up one of these days.